December 18, 2024
Earlier this year, a client of buying agent Camilla Dell offered £3mn less than the c£20mn asking price for a home in a prestigious central London development completed in 2020.
Where once it was the sight of a Waitrose that lit up house-buyers’ eyes, reassuring them that this must be a desirable place to live, now it’s a local pub that’s the most prized “local amenity”, according to research by Jackson-Stops.
December 13, 2024
December 9, 2024
The housing market is hotting up with prices and sales set to head north in the coming months, according to the respected Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Hi, it’s Sarah Rappaport, your luxury reporter in London. Last time you heard from me, I was soaking up the sun on the Athens Riviera. This week, I wrapped up warm on a reporting trip to the Athens of the north—Edinburgh.
November 20, 2024
Camilla Dell, Managing Partner and Founder of Black Brick, a premier buying agency specializing in London real estate, is gearing up for a notable visit to Dubai and Riyadh in November.
The phones of London's high-end estate agents have been ringing overnight. Enquiries from anti-Trump Americans to rent trophy homes on London's most prestigious streets started to come in during the early hours of Wednesday morning as a Donald Trump victory seemed inevitable.
November 19, 2024
On 30 October 2024, Labour set out its fiscal plans for the year ahead. Expectations of clampdowns on multiple homeowners, with breaks for the poorest in society, had been swirling. Aspiring homeowners hoped for a silver bullet to help them get onto the property ladder.
Ever since Sir Keir Starmer stepped into the Downing Street garden and issued a warning that the forthcoming budget would be “painful”, commentators have been predicting a whole range of possible tax raids, writes Camilla Dell.
Inheritance tax (IHT) changes could penalise older homeowners and create a form of “social engineering” for downsizers, a buying agent has warned.
Sarah and her husband Jack live in a leafy part of south-west London, own a holiday home on Spain’s Costa Brava and send their two young daughters to private schools. They work hard – Sarah is in PR and Jack is a cryptocurrency trader – and are well paid. Yet they want out of the UK.
September 30, 2024
Sir Keir Starmer may have underestimated the value of the luxury London penthouse he was given use of by Lord Alli before the election, property experts suggested, receiving “mates’ rates” for his stay.
September 20, 2024
Tilly Bagshawe, 51, and her husband Robin Nydes, 67, are in a race against time to complete the sale of their £2.85 million “dream” Cotswolds second home.
September 18, 2024
London’s most expensive homes are having a tough time selling, with both demand and deals down.
September 9, 2024
Second homes have never been so popular. Before lockdown, just 3 per cent of Britons had a retreat in the countryside or the coast – somewhere to recharge the batteries.
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